Prevention of Offences Act 1851

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Prevention of Offences Act 1851 [a]
Act of Parliament
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Parliament of the United Kingdom
Long title An Act for the better Prevention of Offences.
Citation 14 & 15 Vict. c. 19
Dates
Royal assent 3 July 1851
Commencement 3 July 1851 [b]
Repealed16 November 1989
Other legislation
Amended by
Repealed by Statute Law (Repeals) Act 1989
Status: Repealed
Text of statute as originally enacted

The Prevention of Offences Act 1851 (14 & 15 Vict. c. 19) is an act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom.

Contents

As of 2025 the act still in force in the Republic of Ireland. [1]

The act retained for the Republic of Ireland by section 2(2)(a) of, and Part 4 of schedule 1 to, the Statute Law Revision Act 2007. There is a saving for this act in section 2(2)(b) of the Statute Law Revision Act 2009.

The act was repealed for England and Wales and Northern Ireland by section 1(1) of, and group 5 of Part I of schedule 1 to, the Statute Law (Repeals) Act 1989.

Section 4

Section 4 of the act was replaced by section 20 of the Offences against the Person Act 1861 (24 & 25 Vict. c. 100). [2]

Section 5

Section 5 of the act was repealed for England and Wales [3] by section 10(2) of, and Part III of Schedule 3 to, the Criminal Law Act 1967. It was repealed for the Republic of Ireland by section 16 of, and the Third Schedule to, the Criminal Law Act, 1997.

Sections 6 to 14

Section 6 of the act was replaced, in so far as it related to malicious injuries to property, by section 35 of the Malicious Damage Act 1861 (24 & 25 Vict. c. 97). [4]

Section 11 of the act was repealed by section 119 of, and Part I of Schedule 7 to, the Police and Criminal Evidence Act 1984.

Sections 12 and 13 of the act were repealed for England and Wales by section 33(3) of, and Part II of Schedule 3 to, the Theft Act 1968.

Section 14 of the act was repealed for the Republic of Ireland by section 16 of, and the Third Schedule to, the Criminal Law Act, 1997.

Legacy

The whole act was repealed by section 1 of, and part I of schedule 1 to, the Statute Law (Repeals) Act 1989.

Parliamentary debates

Notes

  1. ↑ The citation of this act by this short title was authorised by section 1 of, and the first schedule to, the Short Titles Act 1896. Due to the repeal of those provisions it is now authorised by section 19(2) of the Interpretation Act 1978.
  2. ↑ The Acts of Parliament (Commencement) Act 1793.

References

  1. ↑ "Irish Statute Book".
  2. ↑ James Edward Davis, The Criminal Law Consolidation Statutes of the 24 & 25 of Victoria, Chapters 94 to 100: Edited with Notes, Critical and Explanatory, Butterworths, 1861, p 255
  3. ↑ The Criminal Law Act 1967, section 11(1)
  4. ↑ James Edward Davis, The Criminal Law Consolidation Statutes of the 24 & 25 of Victoria, Butterworths, 1861, p. 145
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